A federal judge Thursday ruled that Berkeley’s mayor and former mayor must sit for depositions in the U.S. Postal Service’s lawsuit accusing the city of blocking the sale of the historic downtown post office building.

The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday refused to rehear an appeal over a Berkeley, California, law that requires retailers warn consumers about radiation from cellphones, despite one circuit judge’s scathing dissent.

An Oakland, California, woman has dropped her $23 million lawsuit against the University of California and city of Berkeley over violent protests that led to the cancellation of a speech by conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos in February.

Still smarting from FEMA’s decision to pull the plug on more than half a million dollars in fire management grants to cut down thousands of trees in the hills above UC Berkeley, the Regents of the University of California sued the government agency to reinstate its funding.

In a 2-1 decision, a Ninth Circuit panel on Friday refused to overturn a ruling upholding a Berkeley, California, law that forces retailers to warn consumers about the potential health risks of cellphones.

A federal judge Thursday played devil’s advocate in the four-year battle between Berkeley and the U.S. Postal Service’s proposed sale of a historic Post Office building, telling them to get ready for a trial in which he wants to see “witnesses up here being hammered and beat up, and blood on the floor.”